My wife and I are kashering are
home for Passover for the first time this year. We are now purchasing
Passover dishes, utensils, etc. My question is, when we remove
the everyday dishes, where do they go? May we put them in the
boxes that held the Passover dishes? Is it better for the Passover
dishes to not come in contact with any surface that was touched
by everyday dishes? Do we change the plastic containers in our
kitchen drawers? Do we cover the inside of the cabinets?

Dear Joseph Cohen,

First of all, congratulations on
you first "kosher for Passover" home. Many happy returns.

You can store clean everyday utensils
in the Passover containers. After Passover, you can put the Passover
dishes back into the same containers. Just be careful not to
get them mixed up.

It is customary to cover cupboards
and utensil holders that were used during the year and will be
used on Passover. If you can't do this or can't obtain new utensil
holders, then remove the inserts, clean the drawers completely
and put the Passover cutlery directly into the drawer.

And by the way, I must warn you about
one of the mysteries of Pesach: The Pesach utensils come out
of a specific amount of storage space, and yet they never seem
to all fit back in again! I have never found a rational explanation
for this phenomenon!